Tuesday, October 11, 2005

Originally published at "PRT Is A Joke" IS A JOKE v.1Words written with wildcards (***, !!!, etc.) was the way we originally wroteKen Avidor, Ken, and Avidor.

*** is fond of bandying about a study performed by Parsons Brinckerhoff
for OKI (Cincinnati), "proving" that PRT is unsound from an engineering
standpoint. Nevermind that Parsons's study was itself unsound (2nd item in table).

So you gotta laugh your ass off at this article, published last June in the Arab Times, in which a Parsons rep promotes PRT as a transit solution for Kuwait City. All is forgiven, PB-- kiss kiss.

Tuesday, October 04, 2005

Originally published at "PRT Is A Joke" IS A JOKE v.1Words written with wildcards (***, !!!, etc.) was the way we originally wroteKen Avidor, Ken, and Avidor.

One of *** ******'s Talking Points is that PRT is

an
excuse by pro-highway/anti-transit Republicans... to block funding for
[conventional transit]. This is why, perhaps, Taxi 2000/Skyweb
Corporation's leader, Ed Anderson, refers to PRT as a "disruptive
technology".Source

He thinks "disruptive" means destructive. But it's been well documented, here and elsewhere, how *** doesn't understand what the term means -- basically, enter the market at a low level, then move 'up'.

And here's another example of someone who DOES understand it: National Geographic--

If
prices continued to drop, solar cells might change the whole idea of
energy by making it cheap and easy for individuals to gather for
themselves. That's what techies call a "disruptive technology."

"Automobiles
were disruptive to the horse and buggy business," [PowerLight Corp.'s]
Dan Shugar says. "PCs were disruptive to the typewriter industry. We
believe solar electric systems will be disruptive to the energy
industry." Source: "Future Power," National Geographic, Aug. 2005

We can find a parallel in ***'s position in Google. He's been so busy cruising the internet, posting links to his own web pages
in blogs and discussion forums, that if you Google "PRT," *** is in the
first page of results. That is a strong 'market' position. So, PRT supporters, let's practice some disruption of our own, and move the targets of ***'s hate 'up market.' Do it by visiting these PRT-friendly sites and URLs as much as you can, every day:

(IT ANNOYS THE MINNESOTA ANTI-PRT PROPAGANDIST WHEN HIS NAME ISN'T MENTIONED. So we don't. Exactly.)

"One of the best ways to address it, honestly, in all seriousness, is to mock the people who are making these allegations." -Rachel Maddow

"There's no way to debate liars." -Randi Rhodes

"What I do isn't propaganda. What I do is taking what they say and using it against them. What I do is jujitsu. They say something ridiculous and then I subject them to scorn and ridicule. That's my job." -Al Franken